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Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

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GLEANING . For the humanitarian provisions of the Pentateuchal codes, by which the gleanings of the cornfield, vineyard, and oliveyard were the perquisites of the poor, the fatherless, the widow, and the gçr outlander, see Leviticus 19:9 f., Leviticus 23:22 (both H [Note: Law of Holiness.] ), Deuteronomy 24:19-21; cf. Agriculture, § 3; Poverty.

A. R. S. Kennedy.

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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Gleaning'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hdb/​g/gleaning.html. 1909.
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